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Slack outage caused by changes made to the application's code. Slack went down on Monday morning after Microsoft Teams announced they hit 13 million active daily users in June (Slack reported 10 million users in January) Slack engineers have been working on a major upgrade to their desktop app to load faster and use less memory since July 22. The average release frequency in enterprise IT organizations has plummeted from around 12 months down to just 3 weeks. It’s possible that engineering managers started applying additional pressure on teams to build, test and deploy faster than originally expected.